August

I should've walked away

But the air was so still in August

And you

Were the storm inside the silence

Late night white light

Shadows falling just right

You leaned in like you knew

Every line I'd never say to you

Lipstick on a glass

Tasted like a broken past

You smiled like you forgot

But your eyes still knew the cost

And I swore I'd play it cool

Like the August rain would wash away the fool

But time

It never really learned to lie

I just died in your arms tonight

Like I've done a thousand times

But the echo won't rewind

It just plays and replays August in my mind

Yeah I fell into the light

And the shadows came alive

I just died in your arms tonight

Your perfume on my coat

Still smells like a thousand notes

Of a song we never wrote

Just a heartbeat in a ghost

And you said it wasn't love

Just a chapter torn from someone else's book

But it read

Like the ending we both feared

I just died in your arms tonight

Like a whisper caught in fire

Burning out but burning bright

August you're the breath before goodbye

Yeah I fell into the fight

Where the lovers go to hide

I just died in your arms tonight

Tell me this was more than need

More than want or symmetry

Tell me August didn't lie

When you cried

I just died in your arms tonight

As the sky turned red to white

And the thunder kissed the light

And your silence finally cut just right

Yeah I fell without a fight

Into one last sleepless night

I just died in your arms in August

I should've walked away

But the air was so still in August